To solve the problem that it is difficult for a viewer to discriminate whether or not a position of a skip destination is a desired playback starting position since video images in the middle of skip are not displayed on a display in a video signal playback unit.

A video signal playback unit includes: a record section for recording video data; a skip operation section for receiving skip playback instruction input resulting from user operation; a calculating section for calculating, on the basis of the skip playback instruction input being input from the skip operation section, a first time skipped a predetermined time from a playback time at the time of input and a second time obtained by adding a predetermined time to the first time; and an output section for outputting video data recorded in the record section and corresponding to the first time calculated by the calculating section, and video data recorded in the record section and corresponding to the second time calculated by the calculating section, for displaying on an external video display device.